Box ScoreThe Albright College men's lacrosse team overcame a four-goal deficit for the second consecutive day, winning a second straight ECAC Mid-Atlantic championship 14-13 over host Frostburg State on Sunday.
Junior
Philip Potter earned tournament Most Outstanding Player honors after scoring six goals in the final game. Freshman
Derek Stump added four points on two goals and two assists.
Sophomore
Matt Wighard caused three turnovers, including the clinching defensive player late in the game. Junior
Darian Meador had nine ground balls while freshman
Cam Cetrone picked up seven.
Freshman
Andrew Potter scored the game-winner with 2:49 remaining, on an assist from Stump. Frostburg had the ball with a minute remaining, but Wighard stripped
Chris Rios and the Lions killed off the rest of the clock to defeat the Bobcats in an ECAC Mid-Atlantic title game rematch.
Phil Potter had given Albright a 12-11 lead heading into the fourth quarter and the Lions nearly doubled it, with FSU goalie
Tyler Haines making a nice save on Cetrone in final seconds of the third.
Frostburg won the fourth quarter faceoff and
Spenser Love rang a shot off the post just 10 seconds after the restart. A minute later, the Bobcats'
Greg Bourne also hit the pipe. Bourne recovered his own miss however and scored on the same possession to tie the game at 12-12.
FSU took a 13-12 lead and Albright's
Mike Southwick hit a pipe of his own, with the Red and White later tying things at 13-all with 6:51 remaining on Phil Potter's sixth goal of the day.
A game that ultimately featured nine ties and seven lead changes was tied at 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 before the host Bobcats opened the second quarter on a 6-1 run.
Wighard forced a turnover on FSU's first possession of the game, and Phil Potter opened the scoring with 12:50 left in the quarter. Frostburg answered quickly to tie the game at 1-1.
Matthew Lomady and Love exchanged two more quick points, and the offenses pushed the score to 4-4 with 2:13 left in the first period. The Lions won the draw and had the ball for the rest of quarter, with
Justin Brown feeding
Nicholas Pisko to beat the horn for a 5-4 Albright lead.
After the Bobcats scored the first three goals of the second quarter to open up the day's first two-point lead,
Andy Luhmann piled on another for an 8-5 advantage.
The scoring kept coming hard and fast, with
Ryan Turner tallying a little over two minutes before halftime to keep the Lions close at 10-8 down. Stump made it a one-goal game at the break, and the Lions earned a man-up opportunity to start the second half on Luhmann's slash in the final seconds.
Albright couldn't come through on that power play, but Cetrone still tied it at 10-all early in the third quarter.
James Egleston scored from Stump's assist on the man-up for an 11-10 lead, the Red and White's first since the beginning of the second quarter.
Albright concludes its 2014 season with a record of 13-6, and is now 4-0 in ECAC playoff games (6-3 overall in postseason play).
Tournament Most Outstanding Player Phil Potter: